emprise

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At the moment when the tension becomes unbearable, the young man at the controls, face ashen with anxiety and exhaustion, slips on his helmet, slips the leash of fate and high emprise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus was concluded the twelfth and final year of an archeological emprise which has revealed much about the Sumerians, oldest of known civilized peoples.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lancelot, as lover of Guinevere, could not be permitted to achieve so spiritual an emprise, yet as leading knight of Arthur’s court it was impossible to allow him to be surpassed by another.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

The house of life, the father, mother, and their child,—these were the sacred three, and it might be her high emprise to keep their union holy.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice